You can contact me at my username at gmail dot com. I also have a blog.
Here is a poem about me:
I Like Cheese And I Like Beer
I like Lager and Gruyere
I like Cheddar, I like Ale
I like Stout and Wensleydale
I like Gouda, I like Stella
I like Beck's and Mozarella
I like Edam, I like Fosters
I like Grolsch and Double Gloucester
I like Boursin, I like Carlsberg,
I like Newkie Brown and Jarlsberg
I don't like Quorn or Herbal Teas -
I Like Beer And I Like Cheese!

American Addendum:
Starr Hill Pale and Humboldt Fog,
Great Hill Blue and Flying Dog
Are hard to find, but worth the graft-
It isn't all Bud Lite and Kraft.

Obligatory Photo Of My Cats
Current technology allows an almost limitless exchage of information and ideas; people use it to show each other pictures of their cats. I find this truly uplifting.

This happened this week in America.
Cab driver: Hey, I hear y'all don't have guns in England.
Me: That's right, we don't.(Incredulous pause)
Cab driver: Then what do you use?
(Thu 27th May 2004, 2:02, More)

Old china dolls with glass eyes scare me
but that's not really irrational.
They'd kill me given half a chance.
I know it.
edit: and I don't really like being underground, or in a big crowd.
I'm also scared of spiders, although not to an interesting extent.
(Tue 27th Jan 2004, 13:34, More)

I busked once
when I'd run out of beer/tapas money in Barcelona.
I made a sign saying 'Talentless, please help' in English and Catalan, then sang a medley of comic verse.
After 45 minutes a bloke started being sleazy at me so I scarpered, but I'd got the equivalent of fifteen pounds - a far better rate of pay than my current job in academic science.

The Laboratory Ice Bucket Challenge
Everyone sticks a finger in a bucket of iced water, and the one who can stand it longest wins.
It's a test of stubbornness in the face of pointless discomfort - good training for a life in scientific research.
(Tue 30th Mar 2004, 23:47, More)